Improved wash-board and wringer-frame



ntml tatw AMBROSE TOWER.; or 'NEW YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent'No. 96,512,1dated Novem-ber 2, 1869.

IMPRovED WASH-'BOARD AND .WmNGER-FRAME.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part o! thesame.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it-lnown that I, AMBROSE TOWER, of New York, in the county ot' NewYork, and State oi New York, have invented a ucwand valuable Improvementin Combined rash-Boards and \Vringers; and do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the constructionand operation of the saine, reference being had to the annexed drawings,making a part of this specification, and to the letters and ligures ofreference marked thereon.

Figure 1, ot' the drawings, is a side view of my invention.

Figure 2 is a top view of the same.

My invention has relation to washing and wringingapparatus; and

It consists in improvements upon my combined wash-hoard and wringer, forwhich a patent was allowed J nly El, 1862), by which said wash-board andwringer are intended to be well adapted for general use.

lhe letter A, of thc drawings, represents a washboard, having bevclledfeet to its side bars, by whichl it is adapted for sitting firmly in thebottom of a circular wash-tub.

The head ot' this wash-inward has crossfhars, B and C, and also hooks,n, by which it may be made fast to the top ot'a circular tub.

The letters D represent iny wringer-rollers, set diagonally in the headoi' the board, as shown.

The foregoing devices are mainly represented in my device for which a'patent was allowed July 9, 1869, but varying*y somewhat in details, andhence this application is not intended to secure them by pat-ent.

The lnain feature otiny present invention consists in constructingmetallic frames for holding the rollers ofthe wringer, and arrangingtherein blocks, springs, and set-screws, for operating said rollers.

These frames are represented on thedrawings by the letter H, and areadapted for attachment to the head of an ordinary wash-hoard.

The letters o represent openings ilu the frames H, that serve asjournal-boxes for the rollers, the lower` opening being made in the formof a slot, as shown.

In this slotted opening, I arrange the India-rubber block c, that servesas a spring; operating the slidinr block s, that tits to the bottom ofthe journal of Ythe low'er roller, and serves as a box therefor. n Theserubber springs c are actuated by the thumb- Screws y, that work inthreads formed' in the ext-reine hollow or lower ends of frame H, andareused to tighten or loosen the rollers at will.

The above-described arrangement of constructing the frames H insinglepieces of cast-metal is found to b'e far less expensive than theordinary I nethods for adjust-ing and operating the wringers, and Iclaim 'that .the saine is an improvement belonging exclusively' tomyself', and that it is of great value in the manufacture of combinedwash-boards and wrngers, by'lessem ing the cost thereof.

\Vhat 1 claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, isv v The wringer-fi'ames H, and blocks c and s', when constructed asherein described, and combined with a wash-board, substantially asspecified.

ln testimony that I claim the above, I have here unto subscribed myna-me, in the presence ot' two Wi't- IIESSES.

lVitnesses: AMBROSE TOWER.

JAS. S. WIGHTMAN, A. G. SHATTUCK.

